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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.3445S, 165.0896WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 04:30:06 / July 18, 2015 @ 4:30 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20002yb6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002yb6. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:30:06 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 165.0896 East, latitude -10.3445 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 91 km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 165.0896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3445° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-18 04:30:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 04:48:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002yb6 Id of event.
Event Code 20002yb6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yb6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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